The Last of the Priestleys

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 179601219X
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Last of the Priestleys written by Eddie Brady and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Priestleys have been described as “one of the most noted athletic families in this section of the country in a generation.” This unique tribute described four brothers, whose potential professional hockey and football careers with the Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Philadelphia Eagles were cut short by their service with the United States military during World War II. The sports they excelled in ranged from ice hockey, football, baseball, track, and golf. Despite the travails of the Great Depression and World War II, this family overcame unbearable personal tragedies and traumas to lead successful lives that inspired their era and to this day.

The Last of the Spirits

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408852004
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last of the Spirits by : Chris Priestley

Download or read book The Last of the Spirits written by Chris Priestley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam and Lizzie are freezing and hungry on the streets of Victorian London. When Sam asks a wealthy man for some coins, he is rudely turned away. Months of struggle suddenly find their focus, and Sam resolves to kill the man. Huddling in a graveyard for warmth, Sam and Lizzie are horrified to see the earth around one of the tombs begin to shift, shortly followed by the wraithlike figure of a ghostly man. He warns Sam about the future which awaits such a bitter heart, and so begins Sam's journey led by terrifying spirits through the past, present and future, after which Sam must decide whether to take the man, Scrooge's, life or not. A perfectly layered, tense and supremely satisfying twist on one of Dickens' most popular books, cleverly reinvented to entice a younger readership.

The Discovery of Oxygen

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis The Discovery of Oxygen by : Joseph Priestley

Download or read book The Discovery of Oxygen written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Priestley's Progress

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662870X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis Priestley's Progress by : Mike Bullock

Download or read book Priestley's Progress written by Mike Bullock and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first ever biography of Antarctic explorer Sir Raymond Priestley (1886-1974) covers his full (at times life-threatening) involvement with Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907-1909 Nimrod Expedition and Robert Scott's 1910-1913 Terra Nova Expedition. Priestley's service with the British 46th Division during World War I won him the Military Cross for gallantry. After the war, he played a leading role in establishing the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. He was later appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne and then of the University of Birmingham and also helped establish the University of the West Indies. He received a knighthood for his services to education. During retirement--a misnomer in his case--he went with the Duke of Edinburgh on the Royal Yacht Britannia as an Antarctic expert and joined the American Deep Freeze IV Expedition during his tenure directing the British Antarctic Survey. Despite the demands of his career, Priestley remained an involved family man throughout.

The Enlightened Joseph Priestley

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271075570
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Enlightened Joseph Priestley written by Robert E. Schofield and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his two-volume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published in 1997, covered the first forty years of Joseph Priestley’s life in England. In this second volume, Schofield surveys the mature years of Priestley, including the achievements that were to make him famous—the discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterized his later life. He also recounts Priestley’s flight to Pennsylvania in 1794 and the final years of his life spent along the Susquehanna in Northumberland. Together, the two volumes will stand as the standard biography of Priestley for years to come. Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), a contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet Priestley is often portrayed in negative terms, as a restless intellect, incapable of confining himself to any single task, without force or originality, and marked by hasty and superficial thought. In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, he emerges as a man who was more than a lucky empiricist in science, more than a naive political liberal, more than an exhaustive compiler of superficial evidence in militant support of Unitarianism. In fact, he was learned in an extraordinary variety of subjects, from grammar, education, aesthetics, metaphysics, politics, and theology to natural philosophy. Priestley was, in fact, a man of the Enlightenment.

Benighted

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Publisher : London, W. Heinemann Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Benighted by : John Boynton Priestley

Download or read book Benighted written by John Boynton Priestley and published by London, W. Heinemann Limited. This book was released on 1927 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Benighted

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504083725
Total Pages : 178 pages
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Book Synopsis Benighted by : J. B. Priestley

Download or read book Benighted written by J. B. Priestley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic novel of psychological terror, an unrelenting storm forces three travelers to take shelter in a sinister mansion. A powerful storm rages through the Welsh mountains, driving three travelers off the road. Philip Waverton, his wife, Margaret, and their friend Roger Penderel are desperate to get out of the torrential downpour. Their only option is a mysterious old mansion, home to the bizarre Femm family and their brutish butler, Morgan. Although the Femms have plenty rooms in their home, they are hesitant to allow guests to stay in them. Instead, Penderel and the Wavertons must settle in for the night by the ground-floor fireplace and hope the storm will pass by morning. But as the hours go by, their situation only gets worse. The storm intensifies, and the dark house begins revealing its secrets—like what lies behind the two locked doors on the top floor. Now the travelers can only pray they survive until morning . . . Published in 1927, Benighted served as the basis for the 1932 James Whale film The Old Dark House, starring Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, and Gloria Stuart. It was J. B. Priestly’s second novel. “Priestley’s book is a beautifully written affair, oftentimes thrilling and touching, that this reader found perfect company during a few recent stormy days in late October. . . . The novel will surely manage to chill the modern-day reader.” —Fantasy Literature

The Dead of Winter

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408825465
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dead of Winter by : Chris Priestley

Download or read book The Dead of Winter written by Chris Priestley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Vyner recalls a terrible story, one that happened to him. One that would be unbelievable if it weren't true! Michael's parents are dead and he imagines that he will stay with the kindly lawyer, executor of his parents' will . . . Until he is invited to spend Christmas with his guardian in a large and desolate country house. His arrival on the first night suggests something is not quite right when he sees a woman out in the frozen mists, standing alone in the marshes. But little can prepare him for the solitude of the house itself as he is kept from his guardian and finds himself spending the Christmas holiday wandering the silent corridors of the house seeking distraction. But lonely doesn't mean alone, as Michael soon realises that the house and its grounds harbour many secrets, dead and alive, and Michael is set the task of unravelling some of the darkest secrets of all. A nail-biting story of hauntings and terror by the master of the genre, Chris Priestley.

The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271025100
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (251 download)

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Book Synopsis The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley by : Robert E. Schofield

Download or read book The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley written by Robert E. Schofield and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Priestley (1733&–1804) is one of the major figures of the English Enlightenment. A contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, he exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet no one has attempted an all-inclusive biography of Priestley, probably because he was simply too many persons for anyone easily to comprehend in a single study. Robert Schofield has devoted a lifetime of scholarship to this task. The result is a magisterial book, covering the life and works of Priestley during the critical first forty years of his life. Although Priestley is best known as a chemist, this book is considerably more than a study in the history of science. As any good biographer must, Schofield has thoroughly studied the many activities in which Priestley was engaged. Among them are theology, electricity, chemistry, politics, English grammar, rhetoric, and educational philosophy. Schofield situates Priestley, the provincial dissenter, within the social, political, and intellectual contexts of his day and examines all the works Priestley wrote and published during this period. Schofield singles out the first forty years of Priestley's life because these were the years of preparation and trial during which Priestley qualified for the achievements that were to make him famous. The discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterize the mature Priestley&—all are foreshadowed in the young Priestley. A brief epilogue looks ahead to the next thirty years when Priestley was forced out of England and settled in Pennsylvania, the subject of Schofield's next book. But this volume stands alone as the definitive study of the making of Joseph Priestley.

Priestley’s England

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847796443
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Book Synopsis Priestley’s England by : John Baxendale

Download or read book Priestley’s England written by John Baxendale and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Priestley’s England is the first full-length academic study of J B Priestley – novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century Britain, and one of its sharpest critics. The book explores the cultural, literary and political history of twentieth-century Britain through the themes which preoccupied Priestley throughout his life: competing versions of Englishness; tradition, modernity, and the decline of industrial England; ‘Americanisation’, mass culture and ‘Admass’; cultural values and ‘broadbrow’ culture; consumerism and the decay of the public sphere; the loss of spirituality and community in ‘the nervous excitement, the frenzy, the underlying despair of our century’. It argues that Priestley has been unjustly neglected for too long: we have a great deal to learn both from this extraordinary, multi-faceted man, and from the English radical tradition he represented. This book will appeal to all those interested in the culture and politics of twentieth-century Britain, in the continuing debates over ‘Englishness’ to which Priestley made such a key contribution, and in the life and work of one of the most remarkable and popular writers of the past century.

Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a philosophical unbeliever

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a philosophical unbeliever by : William HAMMON (pseud? [i.e. William Turner?])

Download or read book Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a philosophical unbeliever written by William HAMMON (pseud? [i.e. William Turner?]) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Remarks Upon Dr. Priestley's Second Letters [sic] to the Archdeacon of St. Alban's, with Proofs of Certain Facts Asserted by the Archdeacon..

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
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Book Synopsis Remarks Upon Dr. Priestley's Second Letters [sic] to the Archdeacon of St. Alban's, with Proofs of Certain Facts Asserted by the Archdeacon.. by : Samuel Horsley

Download or read book Remarks Upon Dr. Priestley's Second Letters [sic] to the Archdeacon of St. Alban's, with Proofs of Certain Facts Asserted by the Archdeacon.. written by Samuel Horsley and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Remarks upon Dr Priestley's second letter [on the Divinity of Christ] to the Archdeacon of St Alban's [S. H.]. With proofs of certain facts asserted by the Archdeacon

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
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Book Synopsis Remarks upon Dr Priestley's second letter [on the Divinity of Christ] to the Archdeacon of St Alban's [S. H.]. With proofs of certain facts asserted by the Archdeacon by : Samuel HORSLEY (successively Bishop of St. David's, of Rochester, and of St. Asaph.)

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Life and correspondence of Joseph Priestley

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
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The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
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Book Synopsis The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley by : Joseph Priestley

Download or read book The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Vision of J.B. Priestley

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441168265
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Book Synopsis The Vision of J.B. Priestley by : Roger Fagge

Download or read book The Vision of J.B. Priestley written by Roger Fagge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on private and published sources, Roger Fagge takes an in-depth look at J.B. Priestley's work, seeking to reclaim him as an important English thinker. Priestley grew up in Bradford, and served on the front line in the First World War, before attending Cambridge and embarking on a career as a writer. A committed radical, he wrote widely for the press, as well as producing autobiographies, social criticism and plays. This work revealed a growing interest in the meaning of Englishness and the start of a long-running relationship with America. Priestley achieved even greater influence during the early years of World War II via his popular BBC radio 'postscripts'. His later career, however, saw his faith in the people give way to a disillusionment with the spread of the Americanised mass society, although his critical response to the latter maintained a perceptive engagement with world. The Vision of J.B. Priestley charts the continuities, strengths and weaknesses in the author's long career, and his vision of an outward looking radical Englishness.

The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley ... Edited with Notes by J. T. Rutt

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
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Download or read book The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley ... Edited with Notes by J. T. Rutt written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: